Puppy Save File Bad Super block or Partition Table

[steve_s]

Howdy!
Back playing with Puppy again. Installed Mint instead of Win7 on this old laptop, and had a handful of Puppy's on there as dual/multiple boot.

Saved all the Puppy's and put em back on there and now want to boot from em.

But one save file gives me this error and information:

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The filesystem size (according to the super block) is 1179648 blocks. The physical size of the device is 1147593.
Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

I've tried e2fsck a variety of different ways and resize2fs but I have yet to figure it out! Same error. Help!

I've figured out how to use Mint's bootloader to boot Puppy but I can't get Puppy to use that save file 'cause of this error. Please help!

[Wiz57]

What bootloader are you using? If grub4dos or grub 2, on the "kernel" line of the configuration
file (menu.lst for grub4dos, grub.cfg for grub 2) add this "pfix=fsck" this will run the file system
check on the savefile and correct any errors.

[bigpup]

I've tried e2fsck a variety of different ways and resize2fs

How do we know you did this correctly with no details provided.

So did you do this?

To test for and repair errors in Linux file system, use "e2fsck".

Reboot Puppy, using boot option " puppy pfix=ram"

The save file can not be in use.

Mount the partition the save is on.

Open a terminal, and enter:

e2fsck /path to savefile

For example:
a save file named pupsave.2fs on partition sda1
e2fsck /mnt/sda1/pupsave.2fs

To check a save folder use the method for checking a partition.
Check the partition the save folder is on.

To do the whole partition:
Need to boot from a live Puppy or a Puppy on a different partition to do a partition check.
(the partition must be unmounted)

Example:
partition sda1

e2fsck -p /dev/sda1